Subject:

Glenn Beck

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Required Viewing: Five Ridiculous May Day Protest Videos

    Yes, it's May Day today - a somewhat loosely defined global holiday designed to bring attention to worker's rights as well as an opportunity for civil protests of other social injustices.

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Watch Now: A Collection of Stupid Shit Ted Nugent Has Said

    Rock star, hunter and camouflage advocate Ted Nugent is scheduled to meet with the Secret Service today, set to discuss some controversial remarks he made last weekend at a National Rifle Association convention. After telling a group of gathered gun lovers, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in ... More >>

  • Arts

    January 18, 2012

    The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

    Rock star, hunter and camouflage advocate Ted Nugent is scheduled to meet with the Secret Service today, set to discuss some controversial remarks he made last weekend at a National Rifle Association convention. After telling a group of gathered gun lovers, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 11, 2012

    Thomas Frank

    Rock star, hunter and camouflage advocate Ted Nugent is scheduled to meet with the Secret Service today, set to discuss some controversial remarks he made last weekend at a National Rifle Association convention. After telling a group of gathered gun lovers, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Tea Party Patriots Want Idaho's Uber-Christian Take on the Constitution Taught to Kids Nationwide

    ​Constitution Week may be four months away, but it's never too early to try and hone the indoctrination message that the nationwide event will hammer into America's children. First out of the gate are the Tea Party Patriots. The Georgia-based conservative group doesn't want just any Constituti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Glenn Beck, Bellingham's Least Favorite Son, Will Leave FOX for Crazier Pastures

    ​The Glenn Beck we know and love has run his life cycle on FOX News. Soon he'll attach himself to a hard copy of the U.S. Constitution, spin a cocoon of salvaged Goldline.com gold and enter into a long cryostasis. But don't fear! Glenn's not dead. And when he finally emerges from his golden ca ... More >>

  • News

    March 23, 2011

    Rabbi Daniel Lapin Says Glenn Beck Was Wrong

    And explains why he thinks Japan was spared.

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Rejecting "Message of God" Theory, Says Japan Was Spared the Worst Because It's a "Western" Country

    ​Daniel Lapin, Mercer Island's jet-setting rabbi to the religious right, doesn't want to criticize Glenn Beck. "He's a friend," Lapin says of the conservative talk-show host, and the rabbi didn't hear Beck's pronouncement on Monday that the devastation in Japan was a "message from God." Still ... More >>

  • Arts

    February 16, 2011

    Spring Arts Calendar: From Norman Rockwell to Sarah Vowell

    ​Daniel Lapin, Mercer Island's jet-setting rabbi to the religious right, doesn't want to criticize Glenn Beck. "He's a friend," Lapin says of the conservative talk-show host, and the rabbi didn't hear Beck's pronouncement on Monday that the devastation in Japan was a "message from God." Still ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Moxie Media Lawsuit Will Hit Courts Just in Time for 2012 Elections

    ​By this time next year, the 2012 elections will be in high gear. Glenn Beck will cry and shout, Chris Matthews will spit when he talks, and Keith Olbermann will have a new show on HBO where he's allowed to say "fuck" but won't. In Washington, where campaign scandals are drier than old beef je ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Bill Gates Voted Fifth "Most Admired" Man in World in Gallup Poll, and Rightfully So

    ​Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton grabbed the majority of the headlines yesterday when Gallup released the results of its yearly "most admired" people poll. But only a few spots down from Big O on the men's list was Seattle's own dean of donations, Bill Gates.

  • Arts

    December 8, 2010

    The Fussy Eye: The Penetrating Gaze

    Let's dress our TVs in bondage gear!

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Jon Stewart vs. Glenn Beck on the Senate's New Food Safety Bill (Trust Me, It's WAY Funnier Than It Sounds)

    ​For the past couple days, Republicans in Washington (the other Washington) have been making a lot of noise about how ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is going to get done until the President of the United States rolls over, plays dead and, basically, allows the GOP to do whatever the hell they want--most o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2010

    Wynne Greenwood

    ​For the past couple days, Republicans in Washington (the other Washington) have been making a lot of noise about how ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is going to get done until the President of the United States rolls over, plays dead and, basically, allows the GOP to do whatever the hell they want--most o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Lou Dobbs Plans 2011 Return to the Hot Air - Ex-Seattle Reporter Reveals the Heart of a Fox

    ​With the forthcoming cable-TV return of Lou Dobbs, lefty Western Washington will once again be held liable for helping launch two of America's more notorious right-wing bloviators. Along with Fox's blubbering Mount Vernonite, Glenn Beck - who daily rewrites history and is currently recasting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck 'Letterbombed'; Here's How You Can Help Keep Fear and Sanity Alive

    ​If you can't make tomorrow's Fear/Sanity rally at Westlake Park - 9 a.m., in the rain? - then stay home and spread the fear and sanity on Facebook. It is now a technological breeze to electronically attack Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin - or Fox News in general - as three New York ad men did, usin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Seattle Parks Dept. Expects Big Crowd for Sanity Rally

    ​In Washington D.C., "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" is expected to draw tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people to the Washington Mall this Saturday. The satellite "Rally to Restore Sanity Seattle" event won't have Jon Stewart there or Jeff Twee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Glenn Beck's Rants Reportedly Stoked CA Shooter as Well as Patty Murray's Stalker

    ​Charlie Wilson, the Yakima County man who told Sen. Patty Murray she was "dead fucking meat," is not the only outraged wingnut who may have been spurred on by the blathering of Fox TV host Glenn Beck, the pride of Mount Vernon. In June, a California man, Byron Williams, shot at Highway Patro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Charlie Wilson's War: Man Who Threatened Patty Murray Ends Up Aiding Her Re-election

    ​Thanks to his stupidity, some fortunate timing, the siren call of Glenn Beck, and an FBI agent posting as a Tea Partier, Charles Alan Wilson, the 64-year-old Selah man who threatened to kill Sen. Patty Murray, has instead given a likely boost to the incumbent's once-flagging campaign. "You'r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Can't Join Jon Stewart in D.C.? Rally in Spirit at Westlake Center Oct. 30

    ​Update: The organizer, Jim Baum, just called back. Turns out he was once interviewed by Stephen Colbert on The Daily Show. So meta. More after the jump. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart says anyone who isn't "just, let's say, jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strappi ... More >>

  • Arts

    September 15, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    ​Update: The organizer, Jim Baum, just called back. Turns out he was once interviewed by Stephen Colbert on The Daily Show. So meta. More after the jump. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart says anyone who isn't "just, let's say, jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strappi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2010

    Lizz Winstead

    ​Update: The organizer, Jim Baum, just called back. Turns out he was once interviewed by Stephen Colbert on The Daily Show. So meta. More after the jump. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart says anyone who isn't "just, let's say, jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strappi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2010

    Bumbershoot Review: Billy Braggs Needs Only A Guitar and A Message to Prove He's A Badass

    Billy Bragg has been fighting the man for nearly three decades.​Who: Billy Bragg When: 8:30 p.m. Where: Starbucks Stage Anyone hoping that Bumbershoot 2010 would be an escape from the rigors and stresses of the Great Recession, the epidemic of global poverty, or the polarization of American ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    "Who Shot JR?" and other Outdated Cliffhangers

    The goal of Belly Laugh is to eat healthy while on the road performing stand-up comedy. However, there have been many moments where my eyes have been bigger than my stomach and junk food has won...delicious, delicious junk food. After hopping on the scale and seeing a blaring 155 lbs.winking back at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Glenn Beck vs. Martin Luther King Jr. (INFOGRAPHIC)

    ​Glenn Beck and hundreds of people who look a lot like Glenn Beck (presumably) will be marching on Washington tomorrow, August 28, during some sort of honor-restoration ceremony that not-incoincidentally happens to fall on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech." Be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Glenn Beck and Byron Williams: What the Fox News Host Has to Do With the Oakland Highway Shooter

    ​Byron Williams, the California man who engaged police in a RoboCop-style shootout on Oakland's I-580 last Sunday, was an unemployed carpenter, multiple felon and big fan of Glenn Beck. According to TPM, before Williams, a former West Seattle resident, was stopped by police for swerving, he wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Glenn Beck, Meet Your Neighbor Shawna Forde

    ​It could turn into a lifelong series if we began correcting the mistakes of Fox News commentators. So in this case we'll leave it to Shawna Forde, the pride of Everett, to correct Glenn Beck, the pride of Mount Vernon. (Pride having since turned to deep, regretful, abhorrent, how-could-we-hav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Glenn Beck on Russian Spies in Seattle (Video)

    ​Espionage expert Glenn Beck went on Fox & Friends yesterday to talk about the Russian spy crisis: the FBI's arrest of 10 infiltrators, including a Seattle couple, who were apparently trying and failing to transmit secrets back to the Motherland using nothing but shortwave radios and poorly en ... More >>

  • Diversions

    June 30, 2010

    Special Poetry Edition

    ​Espionage expert Glenn Beck went on Fox & Friends yesterday to talk about the Russian spy crisis: the FBI's arrest of 10 infiltrators, including a Seattle couple, who were apparently trying and failing to transmit secrets back to the Motherland using nothing but shortwave radios and poorly en ... More >>

  • News

    May 5, 2010

    Reign of Terror

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio's crusade becomes state policy, thanks to state Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer.

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Q&A: Yeasayer's Chris Keating on 4/20, LSD, Cocaine Cowboys, and Ben Franklin

    Ryan DombalChris Keating & Yeasayer will be at Neumos tomorrow night.​Yeasayer's playing a sold-out show tomorrow night at Neumos. I'm super stoked to hear their killer most recent record, Odd Blood, performed live, and I talked to front man Chris Keating recently about the band's plan for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    The Westlake Tea Party: Photos and Stories of How It Really Went Down

    ​Another Tax Day. Another Tea Party. For over a year, anti-tax demonstrators have been gathering in Westlake Center to let off steam against what they see as excessive government spending and the federal and state politicians who've dug the country further into debt. If you were hoping for si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Charles Alan Wilson's Death Threats Against Patty Murray

    Murray greeting some of her friendlier constiuents.​Charles Alan Wilson is the 64-year-old Selah man arrested by the FBI for calling in threats to Senator Patty Murray's voicemail. According to Murray staffers, an anonymous man going by the initials M.G. had been calling for months, leaving vu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    10 Titles Glenn Beck Rejected for His New Novel

    Published author Glenn Beck is either making air quotes or bunny shadow-puppets. We report, you decide.​Mt. Vernon's favorite son is writing a novel. Glenn Beck's second foray into fiction (if you count the creepy children's book he wrote last Christmas but exclude his nightly show on Fox News ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Denny Heck Can't Spell Glenn Beck, But He Can Spell F-E-A-R

    Frightened yet?​Former politician Denny Heck would very much like to replace Rep. Brian Baird in Washington's 3rd Congressional District. Which means he'd very much like to link his prospective opponents to the two scariest specters in progressive politics: Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. As Joel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    State Rep. Matt Shea: Is Obama Stalin or Hitler?

    State Rep. Matt Shea is clearly busy down in Olympia and unable to tell us why he thinks Obama is Hitler if not merely Stalin. Our unanswered e-mail and phone messages - one of them handed to him by an aide - this week haven 't produced an explanation of his belief in the planned takeover of Ameri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Glenn Beck's Golden Shower Temporarily Suspended

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Jon Stewart's Glenn Beck Takedown

    If you happened to be on Twitter last night around 11 PM, you probably saw the words "epic," "Jon Stewart" and "Glenn Beck" strung together no less than a dozen times. The Daily Show host used the occasion of Beck's emergency appendicitis to launch into a perfectly absurd parody of the Fox host's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Amazon Determined to Make Your Credit Card Debt That Much Larger

    ​Not content with its awesome third quarter financial results, not resting while indie bookstores succumb to its might, Amazon.com has now announced a means to make impulse shopping from your PC that much easier! And just in time for the holidays. The venture, called "PayPhrase" is described ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    Study Says: Seattle Dumber than Massholes

    This guy just bought 10 copies of Glenn Beck's latest book. In the eyes of the Huffington Post, that qualifies him for MENSA membership.​The good news: Thanks to the super-scientific folks at Huffington Post, Seattle now has bragging rights on 48 of the 55 biggest metropolitan areas. (Eat THAT ... More >>

  • News

    September 16, 2009

    Skagit Brothers: Glenn Beck, Ed Murrow

    As Mount Vernon honors the former, we compare the two broadcasters.

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    They Should've Gone for Stephen Colbert

    ​So Glenn Beck's scheduled to ride his Batshitmobile into Mount Vernon later this month to accept the keys to the city. (Compare Beck to another Skagit Valley native. Then wonder why Vanessa Fontana isn't getting keys too.) Having witnessed this circus, Bellingham's mayor is looking to counte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    If Glenn Beck Gets His Own Day in Mount Vernon, Maybe Vanessa Fontana Should Get One Too

    ​ Apparently, many Mount Vernonites are upset that Mayor Bud Norris (no relation to Chuck, sadly) announced a day honoring TV personality Glenn Beck, who hails from the town and who developed his audience by making outrageous statements and crying on air. (Throw in some good, old-fashioned ra ... More >>

  • Music

    September 2, 2009

    Bumbershoot Q&A: David Cross

    Instead of waiting for the Arrested Development movie, David Cross writes a book instead.

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Mr. Lif and Onry Ozzborn Should Bust a Duet

    As my colleague Hollis Wong-Wear recently informed you, Rendezvous, home of Candidt's local hip-hop showcase "The Corner," is the spot this balmy summer evening for quality rhyme-spitting. Boston-born underground MC Mr. Lif headlines a show featuring another subterranean champ, Onry Ozzborn of The G ... More >>

  • Diversions

    May 9, 2007

    Hard Enough to Fail

    As my colleague Hollis Wong-Wear recently informed you, Rendezvous, home of Candidt's local hip-hop showcase "The Corner," is the spot this balmy summer evening for quality rhyme-spitting. Boston-born underground MC Mr. Lif headlines a show featuring another subterranean champ, Onry Ozzborn of The G ... More >>

  • Diversions

    March 28, 2007

    A Brownie Amongst Beaners

    As my colleague Hollis Wong-Wear recently informed you, Rendezvous, home of Candidt's local hip-hop showcase "The Corner," is the spot this balmy summer evening for quality rhyme-spitting. Boston-born underground MC Mr. Lif headlines a show featuring another subterranean champ, Onry Ozzborn of The G ... More >>

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